| OURENSE | Spanish city in Galicia whose hot springs hold one of the greatest amounts of geothermal water in Europe |
| NAGANO | Japanese city whose hot springs draw snow monkeys |
| GEYSER | Geothermal water spout |
| LAVA | Word, ironically from "flood, stream, wash, waterfall", for a volcano's fiery river of geothermal molten magma ranging from 800-1,200AdegreesC (4) |
| LIONSSHARE | The greatest amount of pride in what rugby team got proportionately from Test series (4'1,5) |
| MAXIMA | General principle, one applied to the greatest amounts |
| PANACEA | Father holds one of the highest cards - that'll solve everything |
| AVIAN | A vehicle holds one of the birds |
| HOTSPRINGS | *Arkansas resort known for its geothermal waters |
| THOMASLAVAEDISON | Inventor whose hot ideas just seemed to flow naturally? |
| DEMO | Do hold one of us up during the march (4) |
| SQUINT | Oblique way to hold one of five (6) |
| BALTICSEA | A body of water in Europe surrounded by nine countries (6,3) |
| APRILSHOWERS | Spring water in Europe |
| NURSED | Tended to hold one of those in 20 across for a long time (6) |
| EUCALYPTUS | Tree of the myrtle family yielding timber, oil and gum; one of the biggest of such trees in Europe can be found in Galicia, Spain, called "El Abuelo" it was planted in around 1880, is nearly 70 metres |
| GETAFE | Spanish city in the south of the Madrid metropolitan area whose football team reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 2007 and 2008 |
| VIGO | Port in Galicia, NW Spain, that was the site of a British and Dutch naval victory over the French and Spanish in 1702 (4) |
| BARNACLES | Crustaceans that adhere to rocks or ships' bottoms, highly prized in the cuisine of the Spanish region of Galicia these creatures, known as percebes, have feast days in their honour in several parts o |
| AVILA | Spanish city in hill country north-west of Madrid, at 1,123m it is the highest provincial capital in the country and is famous for its intact medieval city walls (5) |
